我们都知道这种感觉。你在悲伤的夜晚失眠，或者在朦胧的周末清晨蹒跚而行，需要一些阅读的东西，而那一堆未读的书并不能阻止你。为什么不从Twitter和RSS的消防水龙带中休息一下，看看我们每周从网络上收集的关于技术、文化、媒体和未来的重要文章？当然，坐在Instapaper队列中你会感到内疚的还有一件事，但总比再次在Twitter列表上徒劳地拉好。

斯坦福和硅谷

肯•奥莱塔（kenauletta）审视了斯坦福大学及其校长约翰•轩尼诗（johnhennessy）与硅谷的密切关系，以及该校未能在纽约开设分校的情况。

《纽约客》：肯·奥莱塔——美国发财。

But online education might also disrupt everything that distinguishes Stanford. Could a student on a video prompter have coffee with a venture capitalist? Could one become a T-student through Web chat? Stanford has been aligned with Silicon Valley and its culture of disruption. Now Hennessy and Stanford have to seriously contemplate whether more efficiency is synonymous with a better education.

指向

克雷格·莫德（Craig Mod）最近就网络指点的重要性写了一系列有趣的文章，这清楚地解释了为什么大多数出版商的iPad应用程序使用起来如此令人沮丧。

@克雷格Mod:Craig Mod-一个有意义的we[1/3]，[2/3]，[3/3]

This lack of platforminess is what makes many iPad magazine apps impotent. They end up in no better a position than a printed magazine. There are no routes by which you can directly get to their content. You can't point in. You're forced to go through the "front door" to get anywhere. And it's a door usually weighing several hundred megabytes and infuriatingly difficult to unlock.

论走私

在过去十年的大部分时间里，92岁的海曼·斯特拉奇曼每周花60多个小时拷贝电影，把inc-are包裹寄给国外的美军士兵。

****：艾伦·施瓦兹——92岁，好莱坞的强盗，士兵的英雄

Mr. Strachman has never ripped a movie from a store-bought DVD and does not even know how; rather, he bought bootlegged discs for $5 in Penn Station before finding a dealer closer to home, at his local barbershop. Those discs were either recordings made illegally in theaters or studio cuts that had been leaked.

在赫芬顿邮报

迈克尔·夏皮罗（michaelshapiro）描述了《赫芬顿邮报》（Huffington Post）从2005年年中的正式发布到最近的普利策奖（Pulitzer Prize）的成功，同时也回顾了网络和病毒性的动态。

哥伦比亚新闻评论：迈克尔·夏皮罗-六度聚合：赫芬顿邮报如何吞噬互联网

Still, networks were eternally undermined by the inevitable force of randomness. It was one thing, say, to go to a baseball game and hear the stirrings of rhythmic clapping that then cascade around the ballpark so that quickly everyone is clapping in unison. A powerful thing to behold—so much so that an inning later, you yourself might want to start the whole stadium clapping. Maybe the person to your left joins in, and maybe five or six others do, too. Until the clapping dies. In Watts’s view, networks were a wonderful phenomenon to observe, but all but impossible to replicate. Why did everyone in the ballpark feel the desire to join in the clapping in the sixth inning but not in the seventh?

论通用图书馆

尼古拉斯·卡尔（nicholascarr）提供了一本极好的入门书，介绍了创建通用图书馆的艰难努力，从Google图书搜索到美国数字公共图书馆项目。

技术评论：尼古拉斯卡尔-乌托邦图书馆

Darnton soon became the most eminent and influential critic of the Book Search settlement, writing articles and giving lectures in opposition to the deal. His critici** was as withering as it was learned. Google Book Search, he maintained, was "a commercial speculation" that, under the liberal terms of the settlement, seemed fated to grow into "a hegemonic, financially unbeatable, technologically unassailable, and legally invulnerable enterprise that can crush all competition." It would become "a monopoly of a new kind, not of railroads or steel, but of access to information."

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